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  • Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

    Family   Might   Insult  
    Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.11, Vintage
  • The attorney general will not cast aspersions on my asparagus.

    "Louie Gohmert Goes Off On Eric Holder At House Hearing" By Luke Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2013.
  • An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

    'The Rivals' (1775) act 3, sc. 3
  • Can you suggest any suitable aspersions to spread abroad about Mrs. Thatcher? It is idle to suggest she has unnatural relations with Mrs. Barbara Castle; what is needed is something socially lower: that she eats asparagus with knife and fork, or serves instant mash potatoes.

    Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”
  • The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction of some right wing activist who are doing their best to cast aspersions on his character and to question his religion and citizenship.

  • I'm not here to cast aspersions on anyone. I'm trying to unify the party, not find fault.

    Party   Trying   Faults  
    "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.
  • I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.

    Men   Doors   People  
    Source: www.sbs.com.au
  • Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands.

    Hands   Idols   Ties  
    Gustave Flaubert (1957). “Madame Bovary”
  • Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but solely for the purpose of protecting ourselves. We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

  • The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

    George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.61, Indiana University Press
  • It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

  • ... trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.

  • A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

    Men   Journey   Good Man  
    Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3199, Delphi Classics
  • When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.

    George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”
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